GM redirects here. For other uses, see GM (disambiguation). General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Daewoo, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Oldsmobile, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab, and Vauxhall. Chevrolet and GMC divisions produce... General Motors produced a plain A pushrod or overhead valve ( OHV) type piston engine places the camshaft below the pistons and uses pushrods or rods to actuate lifters or tappets above the cylinder head to actuate the valves. This contrasts with an overhead cam (OHC) design which places the camshafts above the cylinder head and... pushrod ( In automotive engineering, an Overhead Valve or OHV piston engine is one with pushrod-actuated poppet valves perpendicular to the pistons. This contrasts with previous designs, including side valves and sleeve valves. Today, the technology is widespread, and the term, OHV, is generally used to differentiate a pushrod engine from... OHV) The straight-4 or inline-4 is an internal combustion engine with four cylinders aligned in one row. This straight engine configuration is the most common in cars with a displacement up to 2.0 litres. The straight-4 engine is not a balanced configuration and while this is tolerable... straight-4 engine for the The J platform, or J-body, was General Motors inexpensive front wheel drive automobile platform from the 1980s and 1990s. The platform replaced the GM H platform. The first J-body car was the Cavalier, which was released on March 21, 1981. The Cavalier was phased out at the end... J-body Rambler American Compact car is a largely North American term denoting an automobile smaller than a midsize car, but larger than a subcompact car. Compact cars usually have wheelbases between 2.54 metres (100 inches) and 2.67 metres (105 inches). Another definition specifies between 100 ft³ (2800 ... compact cars and 1999 Chevrolet S-10 pickup The GMC Sonoma was a compact pickup truck from General Motors. When first introduced in 1982, it was known as the S-15 - a sister model to the Chevrolet S-10 pickup. A high-performance version was the GMC Syclone. The Sonoma was also sold... S-series The driver of a car transporter truck prepares to offload Skoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For further uses of the word truck, see Truck (disambiguation). A truck is a motor vehicle for transporting goods. Unlike automobiles, which usually have a unibody construction, most trucks (with the exception of the... trucks. Displacement ranged from 1.8 L to 2.2 L with Turbocharger Cut-away A turbocharger is a device used in internal-combustion engines to increase the power output of the engine by increasing the mass of oxygen and fuel entering the engine. A key advantage of turbochargers is that they offer a considerable increase in engine power with only a... turbocharged 1.8 and 2.0 L versions offered as well. The final version was known as the 2200, and lived on as the Vortec is General Motors trademarked name for a line of piston engines for trucks. The name first appeared in 1986 on a 4.6 liter V6 but now adorns a wide range of different engines. Modern Vortec engines are named for their displacement There are a number of Vortec engines... Vortec 2200, though the earlier models were never even named. The line was eventually replaced by the The Quad 4 (called Twin Cam after 1995) was a DOHC straight-4 automobile engine produced by General Motors Oldsmobile division in the 1990s. It was a modern engine for the time, but was criticized for roughness, and balance shafts were added in 1995, but the 1996 2.4 was... Quad-4 and Ecotec is the name of a straight-4 piston engine made by General Motors since 2000. It is a modern chain-driven DOHC 4-valve design with an aluminum block and head. It uses aluminum pistons and cast iron cylinder liners and vibration is reduced with twin balance shafts. The... Ecotec in the late Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM... 1990s.

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The 2.2 L version was revised in 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events January January - The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General George H. W. Bush becomes the first... 1992 as the 2200 with multiport Fuel injection is a technology used in internal combustion engines to mix the fuel with air prior to combustion. As in a traditional carburetor, fuel is converted to a fine spray and mixed with air. However, where a traditional carburetor forces the incoming air through a venturi to pull the... fuel injection, a new In automotive engineering, an intake manifold or inlet manifold is a part of an engine that supplies the fuel/air mixture to the cylinders. An exhaust manifold or header collects the exhaust gases from multiple cylinders into one pipe. Due to the sucking effect of the downward movement of the... intake manifold, and larger valves pushed by a revised The camshaft is an apparatus used in piston engines to operate poppet valves. It consists of a cylindrical rod running the length of the cylinder bank with a number of oblong lobes or cams, protruding from it, one for each valve. The cams force the valves open by pressing on... camshaft. This version increased power to 110 hp (82 kW), and allowed the idle rate to drop to just 600 rpm.

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• This page chronicles the many automobile engines that General Motors has used in its various marques. GM currently uses certain terminology to refer to groups of engines, but this terminology does not necessarily isolate families. In other words, not all of the Vortec engines share common ancestry. GM also uses... List of GM engines